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Sunday, February 5, 2012

When did Alaska move to China??

I was food shopping yesterday at a natural foods store (Harvest Moon, Floyd, VA) about a 2 hour drive from here, and saw "Wild Alaskan Salmon" in the freezer section. The packaging touted it was free of all the stuff I avoid, so I picked up a small piece. They were vacuum-packed in individual portions (I forget the weights) and although quite pricey, I thought I might treat myself to one package... I haven't had salmon in ages!

However, being the concerned shopper I have become... I took the package over to a stronger light so I could read the teeny-tiny fine print... only to read that this "Wild Alaskan Salmon" was a product............ of China!!!

Well, I want to know just WHEN Alaska moved to China??

How can they advertise wild Alaskan salmon on the package when it's from China??? No doubt it's also farm-raised. And for God's sake, this was for sale in a health foods store!!!!!!!

its pretty sad when garlic, sold in the midwest, is labeled from china. you'd think we could grow just about anything here. the only good thing about increased oil prices is that it *should* start to get too expensive to ship products around the world - to china - to be packaged. its a crazy world we live in, huh?

Hey Darius The packing ships are in the coastal waters of alaska packing the fish there contracted through China if you watched deallest catch the packing boats are china owned they pack it and freeze it on the ship these ships are very very large they can hold a full season of supplies and fish, these ships have 100 to 150 people aboard 3 shifts some only have two shifts that 12 hours a day when my wife and I lived in washington state we had the boat crews storing there thing in our storage lockers the work for 2 to 4 months aboard ship and then go home some of them live in soma

Very sad. I think the worst part, though, is that we have to so carefully read the packages or we end up buying something we never intended. The labeling is so misleading, if we don't read the fine print.

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This blog has turned into “Living Along the Creek” for my life here now includes much more than just raising healthy vegetables and fruits. I’m learning to cure and preserve meats (from bacon and ham to salumi) and to make many kinds of cheese to round out my homegrown diet.
I have worn many hats in my lifetime; I’ve been a passive solar home-builder, a marketing executive, a garden writer, a medical researcher, renovated houses, raised Arabian horses, and worked in open-heart surgery. I'm interested in far too many things to do a single-topic blog!
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